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ATHLETICSINNAVYOhio Boy is Member of Wolverine Team PlayedAgainst the Canton Team Last Year.Chief Yeoman George R Down's, advance recruiting clerk for Uncle Sam's navy, will be at room 10, No. 129 South Cleveland avenue, this city, after 98s m, daily until the navy recruiting office opens there from September 0 to 20, for the purpose of furnishingcirculars and information to applicants who desire to enlist in the navy.Chief Yeoman Downs is provisional commander of the Army and Navy Union, and ail honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, regulars or volunteers, or those now in active service, who would like to become charter members of a garrison of the union to be organized In this city, can call at the navy recruiting office, or sendtheir name and address.Athletics are much encouraged in the navy, and the government furnishes free outfits for football, baseball, boxing, etc, Coxswain Louis S. Brown now on board the U. S. S. Wolverine, and an Ohio boy, came here with the Wolverine’s navy football team lastfall from Erie, Pa, and did some good work bucking against Canton’s heavyeleven.Machinists, electricians, boilermakers, blacksmiths, carpenters, coppersmith?,, pharmacists and hospital apprentices, typewriters and stenographers, firemen, coal passers, am* apprentice seamen are wanted for the; navy; age limit 17 to 35, pay ranges from $16 to $70 a month and board.The navy recruiting office will only be open In this city from September 0 to 20, and all young men who havemade up their minds to join tue navy, should apply on an early date and be {examined physically and not wait until the office is about to close on the last day—for then it will be too late.Louis S. Brown, Coxswain, U. S. Navy, Navy Athlete and FootballPlayer.
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Canton Morning News
Canton, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 03, 1906
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